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12.11.2015 18:49 msk Human Rights Politics Uzbekistan
Fergana just learnt Murad Jurayev, a well-known Uzbekistani oppositional political prisoner, has been released from prison on November 12. The photograph below was made almost immediately after his release and is post on Facebook.
12.11.2015 01:51 msk Human Rights Uzbekistan
Activists of the Ezgulik human rights advocacy society visited November 10 Murad Jurayev in prison. Mr Jurayev is a former MP and ex-mayor of a city in Kashkadarya Region (Uzbekistan), who has been imprisoned for over two decades.
04.11.2015 02:15 msk Human Rights Politics Uzbekistan
This fatigued man is well into his seventh decade. He was a boss of this or that kind more than half of his life. For a quarter-century he was under the rule of the despised others in Soviet times, and he has been Boss No. 1 in an independent country for almost the same number of years. At this time
02.11.2015 20:57 msk Human Rights Politics Uzbekistan
Fire broke out in the house of Dmitriy Tikhonov, a journalist and rights advocate, and destroyed part of the house and property in the town of Yangiabad 15km from the city of Angren in Tashkent Region on October. The cause of fire is unknown at this time. The house owner learnt about the fire only o
22.10.2015 13:31 msk Business Cotton Human Rights Uzbekistan
According to many employees of state-funded institutions, who have been forcefully sent to cotton fields in Uzbekistan , they manually collected the entire harvest of cotton this year. They report seeing not even one cotton-picking machine throughout the whole period of their work on the fields. Mea
12.10.2015 10:47 msk Human Rights Kyrgyzstan Religious life
The Kara-Suu District Court in Osh Region completed a trial of the case of Rashod Kamalov, a popular imam at the As-Sarakhsi mosque, on October 7. Mr Kamalov is charged with three crimes, each of which fell under two articles in the Kyrgyz crime code: inciting religious animosity, abuse of power, an
29.09.2015 01:32 msk Analytics Business Human Rights Politics Uzbekistan
According to information Fergana obtained from several sources, thousands of residents of the city of Angren in Tashkent Region of Uzbekistan are engaged in this year’s cotton-picking campaign. The area is of particular interest because its one of the sites the World Bank has financed a project. One
23.09.2015 13:39 msk Business Cotton Human Rights Politics Uzbekistan
Text and photos are copyrighted by Timur Karpov
16.09.2015 12:14 msk Business Human Rights Uzbekistan
The Uzbek-German Forum for Human Rights published “Silk Noose on Uzbek Farmers’ Neck,” which sheds light on 1) the use of forced labour in silk cocoon production in Uzbekistan and 2) centralised approach on the cocoon production and government monopoly, which impose production quotas on the farmers
02.09.2015 00:59 msk Analytics Arts Central Asia Human Rights Russia Uzbekistan
The director of the legendary Savitsky Art Museum in Nukus, Karakalpakstan, Marinika Babanazarova, was recently fired; no new director has been appointed yet. Ms Babanazarova’s colleagues and friends are collecting signatures and writing letters in protest to the government and president of Uzbekist
13.08.2015 12:56 msk Human Rights Politics Religious life Uzbekistan
Idaho Man Found Guilty of Conspiracy and Attempt to Provide Material Support and Possession of an Unregistered Destructive Device, US Department of Justice reports .
20.07.2015 10:40 msk Human Rights Internet Migration Politics Religious life Uzbekistan
Every five years starting in 1996 Uzbekistan delivers a report before UN Committee for Human Rights on the implementation of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights. There are very few people aware of this document in Uzbekistan, save the officials and a handful of pro-government NG
06.07.2015 00:37 msk Human Rights Politics Religious life Russia Tajikistan
Muhiddin Kabiri, the leader of the Islamic Revival Party of Tajikistan (IRPT), has inadvertently become the main newsmaker for Tajik and foreign mass media outlets. Mr Kabiri broke silence he kept for the last three weeks and made himself available for journalists.
01.07.2015 12:11 msk Human Rights Kazakhstan Kyrgyzstan Politics Tajikistan Uzbekistan
Three incidents involving firearms have taken place in three different parts of the Uzbek borders with neighbours recently.
28.06.2015 13:23 msk Human Rights Politics Uzbekistan
The Tom Lantos Human Rights Commission under the US Congress held a session June 25 entitled “Civil and Political Rights in Uzbekistan and Central Asia: Implications for Post-2014 U.S. Foreign Policy.”
13.06.2015 10:34 msk Human Rights Kyrgyzstan Politics
Sherzodbek Askarov, the son of a well-known human rights activist and journalist, Azimjan Askarov, is appealing to the UN, OSCE, the embassies of the USA, the Czech Republic, Germany and other countries with a request for assistance in forming a commission for a fair investigation into a criminal ca
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